AGP reading as PCI

[Juneaukid]

Hello all,


I have a 9800 Pro AGP that has worked flawlessly for the last year or
two.


Recently I have been having some trouble with crashes while playing EQ2

so I started troubleshooting drivers and such.


During this investigation I found that in the XP Device Manager it is
reading the card as being in the PCI slot.


My motherboard is an ASUS P4p800.


Although I built the PC myself I am kind of a novice when it comes to
BIOS and hardware settings.


Is this even an issue to worry about? Any ideas on where to start
troubleshooting?

I posted this over on the ati boards and someone mentioned they had a
similar issue and had found a option in BIOS that allowed you to
initiate video from PCI to AGP.

Does anyone know where this option is?
I looked around a bit in the BIOS but saw nothing that was an obvious
connection.


Cheers
JuneauKid

 

[Paul]

Hello all,


I have a 9800 Pro AGP that has worked flawlessly for the last year or
two.


Recently I have been having some trouble with crashes while playing EQ2

so I started troubleshooting drivers and such.


During this investigation I found that in the XP Device Manager it is
reading the card as being in the PCI slot.


My motherboard is an ASUS P4p800.


Although I built the PC myself I am kind of a novice when it comes to
BIOS and hardware settings.


Is this even an issue to worry about? Any ideas on where to start
troubleshooting?

I posted this over on the ati boards and someone mentioned they had a
similar issue and had found a option in BIOS that allowed you to
initiate video from PCI to AGP.

Does anyone know where this option is?
I looked around a bit in the BIOS but saw nothing that was an obvious
connection.


Cheers
JuneauKid

Try installing the chipset drivers for your motherboard. That
will give you an AGP miniport driver. With no AGP miniport, it
might read "PCI".

You can get chipset drivers from support.asus.com (if it is working)
or start here. I like the ZIP version of INFINST for AGP and USB,
because it allows you to poke around in the folders and see
how it works. For example, even though I have an 875 based board,
my motherboard still ended up using "865.inf" during install:

ttp://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=1049&lang=eng

Get a copy of Powerstrip from entechtaiwan.com . The taskbar
popup menu "Options" item will show you the status of the
features on your card, and give you some idea as to whether
everything is working or not.

I'm willing to bet things "accelerate" significantly once you get
it fixed. Be prepared to have to reinstall the ATI software,
as the ATI stuff undoubtedly won't be happy, when the driver
underneath it changes. Just make sure you have the ATI driver
package handy for when it is needed (i.e. find it now, before
updating anything else). You can uninstall the ATI package,
using Add/Remove, before reinstalling if you want. DirectX
should not need to be pampered, and the same version can be
installed over and over again, without any changes or tangible
benefits. In other words, you can reinstall DirectX if it makes
you feel better, but nothing should happen.

Paul